A recommended read by Hiranya Peiris:
"[we] had a quality problem long before LLMs...publish or perish, citation metrics as proxy for impact, volume as proxy for productivity... have been producing incremental, poorly checked, & sometimes wrong papers for decades"🧪🔭⚛️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Thanks Chris, I enjoyed working with Ione Parkin, who has curated such a wonderful exhibition.
The geology of the Orientale Basin, adapted from the Unified Geological Map of the Moon, as modified by C.M. Fortezzo et al. (2020).
Published in #GJI Geophysical Journal International: "Subsurface density structure of the Orientale basin revealed by 3-D gravity inversion of GRAIL data", Manda et al. This is Fig. 1: please visit academic.oup.com/gji/article/... to read the paper. @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @academic.oup.com
I saw this art work by #AnnaGillespie at the #RWA exhibition on “Art and the Cosmos” in Bristol - to me it says “the future of astronomy“ as we try to peer through the bars in our skies from bright satellite “noise”. 🤔 Art can be so profound! 🔭 #space @royalastrosoc.bsky.social
Refreshed gift link
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Sending solidarity and empathy.
NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA
Lucinda Offer, Education and Outreach Officer at the Royal Astronomical Society.
With all the excitement around Artemis II and our return to the Moon, who's also ready for Mars? 🚀
Why not join our Education and Outreach Officer Lucinda Offer as she explores past and future exploration of the Red Planet at a #SpaceLates event hosted by the National Space Centre on 17 April. 🪐
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African American women mathematicians Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan, and Mary Jackson did the complex calculations that made spaceflight possible.
Johnson helped map the trajectory for Apollo 11.
Vaughan lead unit of Black women mathematicians.
Jackson became NASA’s 1st Black woman engineer.
Artwork promoting the Cosmos: The Art of Observing Space exhibition at the RWA.
✨ Don't miss it! ✨
There is now less than a month to go until the exhibition Cosmos: the Art of Observing Space closes at the Royal West of England Academy.
Curated by Ione Parkin RWA and delivered in partnership with us, the exhibition explores humanity's enduring fascination with the cosmos.
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Why not come and visit the brilliant 'Our Fragile Space' exhibition here at the Royal Astronomical Society...
The free display about space debris, which opened to the public last week, will be in Burlington House courtyard until 10 May. 🛰️ 🚀 🔭
Awful! Started in a vape shop and the 1850s buildings are gone. I can only hope that starts to allow firefighters to get it under control.
Here's one we made earlier for #IWD - 8 women in Scotland who shaped #histSTM
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A catalogue of stars from the Madras Observatory - with a picture of the observatory on the title page
In the 19th century the Cambridge Observatory was sent the publications of many other observatories from around the world: this is from the East India Company's Observatory at Madras.
John Lewis Roget's pencil sketch of a two-wheel hand truck, flowers and adult and child passengers in period hats, suits and dresses at Deal and Canterbury railway stations.
Welcome aboard today's #commute with John Lewis Roget (1828–1908), calling at #Deal, #Dover, #Kearsney, #Canterbury and #Faversham.
Roget took every opportunity to illustrate the places he visited, including the railway station.
1) Deal Station – Canterbury Station. 6th August 1891
#trainstation
These are highly delightful!
New podcast from the awesome Daina Bouquin on the strange history of computing. A must listen.
Starting TOMORROW!! #BiteSizedBookHistory returns with a 5-episode season! BSBH is a series of 7-10 minute long videos about various book historical topics, aimed at a general audience. Catch up with previous episodes here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
For £35k, which is zippity nada in the scheme of even impoverished council funding, just going to show that it's not actually about the money in any case. Vandals.
Over 100 works of art being put up for auction by (cash strapped) Reform-run Kent County Council.
Kent Greens: "While the total financial value of the art is only around £35k, the historic and social value of the art, most of which depicts Kent, is far higher."
As @vrubinobs.bsky.social gets going with its survey of the sky, nice to be reminded of a Fred Hoyle quote: ‘a large telescope is a good example of the things which our civilisation does well’.
Last chance to visit Moon Palace! 🌔 🚌
The school bus-turned mobile observatory is here for one more day at the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social – don't miss the chance to explore everything on board.
Come and see us from 10am-4pm today!
Save the date! T&F's Mark James FLS and Dr Anke Timmermann FLS (i.e.yours truly) will discuss Sir Joseph Banks' botanical discoveries at the Grantham Museum in September.
More information and tickets available here: granthammuseum.org.uk/product/sir-...
Job opening at the Royal Observatory Greenwich (3 year fixed term): Heritage Operations Officer, responsible for coordinating public engagement and events for the Heritage Fund programme associated with the First Light redevelopment of the site #scicomm 📜
Jobs!
Senate House Library is embarking on an ambitious project to transform access to one of the UK’s largest and richest collections of queer literature —the remarkable Haud Nominandum Collection, donated by activist, bookseller and co-founder of Gay’s the Word bookshop, Jonathan Cutbill.
My photo shows the ruin of an eight-sided Roman brick lighthouse with four stepped levels. There is a central arched opening (doorway) at ground level. On the upper three levels, in line with the doorway, there are narrow rectangular window openings. The lighthouse stands 15.8 metres high and is 12.2 metres wide at the base. Roman fabric survives to a height of 12.5 m. The brickwork of the uppermost level was reconstructed for use as a church bell tower for the adjacent Anglo-Saxon church of St Mary in Castro, which can be glimpsed on the right-hand side of my photo. The lighthouse is dated circa 1st century to early- 2nd century AD. It was one of a pair originally built on each side of the Roman port of Dubris (Dover). The other does not survive. This lighthouse stands within the grounds of Dover Castle.
The Roman Pharos (lighthouse) at Dover, still standing after almost 2,000 years! 🤩
It is the tallest surviving Roman structure in Britain, and one of only three surviving lighthouses from the former Roman Empire! Dated 1st-2nd century AD.
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A small stylised horse figure with featuring a prominent mane and, a circled dot for the eye and a completely looped tail. The brooch has an overall greenish colour from oxidation to the aged copper
As we as we gallop into #LunarNewYear, we thought we’d showcase this copper Roman horse brooch for Year of the Horse on display at Dover Museum
#HorseYear #YearOfTheHorse #Dover #Museum
Photo of interior of the National Lending Library for Science and Technology
Join online or in person on Tues 3 March 5.30pm @warburginstitute.bsky.social. Emmeline Ledgerwood's topic is The National Lending Library for Science & Technology & its collection of Russian scientific literature in Cold War Britain: bit.ly/NationalLend.... Image: British Library Corporate Archive
